There are several places in Ukraine named Odessa. I would start with using the Shtetlseeker: http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp. Enlarge the maps around these place and see if any of them have places that look similar in their spellings. Tina On 2/17/09, gloria antypowich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Especially to Fred Hoffman for all the information you gave -now I have to > sit down and really think about this and consider where I turn to search > next. I'm kind of staggering, but what you explained makes so much sense. > Where would you look next ? One time I contacted a genealogist to search > out my husbands mothers family history in Austria. He quoted me 1400 > Euros-which would have been around $2000.00 in Canadian and I just could > not do that. In that case I had an address and the names of ancesters. > This family is so much more elusive. > > > > Thank you to all the rest of you too. I am just blown away by the > response. > > > > To Jerry: > > > > Living children of this marriage born in Russia before they immigrated to > Canada in 1904 were: > > > > 1. Simeon Chwatt Antipowicz born Aug 12, 1881 in Kovov, Odessa, > Russia. > > 2. Cornella (Kornella) born 1883 in Russia. > 3. Victor born July 17, 1888 in Kovov, Torhaewacka (Torhaevaa??)) > Russia . Victor married Lena Melashenko born March 22, 1892 in Petroka, > Harkow, Russia. She was the daughter of John F. Melashenko and Ywdokia > Hardenko. > 4. John born July 1891 in Torhaevaa, Russia. > 5. Michalena born in 1893 in Russia > 6. Johanna born May 27, 1902 in Crimea, Russia > 7. Pertosi (Parask? Bertosi? - he was called Joe in Canada) born > in1903, in Russia. > > Note: They had several other children that died. One child, Olga, who was > born in 1892 died in 1904 before the family left. Truthfully they had > children almost regularly on a yearly basis. They lost at least 5 other > children from what the family records show. > > > > The only one I have a baptismal record for is for John and it states that > he > was baptized at a Catholic Church in Saskatchewan on the 28th of November, > 1906. he would have been 15 years old then which surprised me. I am not > of > the Catholic faith but I thought people were generally baptized as babies. > > > > In my searches I have not found the names of any of the places except > Crimea-but Crimea is much more complicated than simply being Crimea, as you > know I am certain. I don't know if they moved around a lot or if all this > places are in general area. If I could nail down where they lived I could > even look for grave sights of the children that were born and died th > > > > Thank you every one > > > > Gloria Antypowich > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >